Deane & Norm's Motorcycle Trip in
Northern & Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
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Deane & Norm's Motorcycle Trip in Northern & Eastern Europe and Scandinavia |
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July 1 - Malmo, Sweden to Stockholm, Sweden 615 Km (380 Miles) |
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This was a hard-riding day. We rode most of the day on the Swedish equivalent of US Freeways, which are very good. However, at the beginning of the day, while using my GPS as a guide, I made a couple of wrong turns, and we took a "shortcut", by way of following the GPS. Well, the road kept getting narrower, and narrower, and of poor surface, so we found the back roads of Sweden can be just a farmer path. We had some dirt and gravel to ride, but not bad. But we had a good view of forests, small dairies, and nice farm land. We were never "lost", but it felt like it. (Norm was hoping we'd meet "the Farmer's Daughter", but no such luck.) We guessed that Sweden has had major clear-cut logging and re-planting, because much of their forests had pine trees all of equal height and about equal diameters of the trunks. As we came north, the general landscape had more and more forests, to the point where in some places, we just rode down a tunnel of trees on both sides. Also, there was a long stretch where the fields were much dryer that the beautiful greens we had been seeing. At one stop we met a motorcycling couple from England, their home is in Blackpool, and we traded information and stories with them. The man was quite the talker, with a heavy English accent, and we had a hard time getting away from him. They had just come down from the northern tip of Norway, Nordkapp, which is our goal, so we got some good first hand information. Its a good thing that being this far North gives us extra daylight, because when we rode into Stockholm and looked for our hotel, we would have been totally lost after dark. As it was, it was a good thing we had our GPS to guide us, with many, many twists and turns in the big city. No pictures today; we had to keep riding to make Stockholm. |
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